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This is a list of prominent rabbis, Rabbinic Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.

See also:

Mishnaic period (ca. 70–200 CE)

• Yohanan ben Zakkai (1st century CE) 1st-century sage in Judea, key to the development of the Mishnah, the first Jewish sage attributed the title of rabbi in the Mishnah.^[1]
• Shimon ben Gamliel, was a sage and served as the nasi of the Great Sanhedrin
  in Jerusalem. (c. 10 BCE–70 CE)
• Judah Ben Bava, was a 2nd-century tana that was known as "the Ḥasid."
• Rabban Gamaliel II, was the first person to lead the Sanhedrin as nasi after the fall of the Second Temple
  .(?–c. 118)
• Rabbi Akiva or Akiva ben Yosef (c. 50–28 September 135 CE) 1st-century Judea, central scholar in Mishnah
• destruction of the Second Temple
  .(?–131 CE)
• Eliezer ben Hurcanus was one of the most prominent sages of the 1st and 2nd centuries.
• Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, was given the title "Ba'al HaBaraita" and was a rabbi
  of the 1st and 2nd centuries
• Eleazar ben Arach was a tana in the 2nd-century.
• Eliezer ben Jose (2nd century CE), the son of Jose the Galilean, famous for Baraita of thirty-two mitzvoth, and father of Rabbi Hananiah
• Johanan ben Zakkai
• Betar
  (135 AD).
• Rabbi Meir (2nd century) considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the fourth generation (139–163)
• Shimon bar Yochai (2nd-century) Jewish mystic, traditional author of the Zohar
• Judah ha-Nasi (c. 135 to 217 CE) 2nd century, Judah the Prince, in Judea, redactor (editor) of the Mishnah

Talmudic period (ca. 200–500 CE)

• Samuel of Nehardea, Amora in Babylonia, physician (c.165–254)
• Abba Arikha, Amora in Babylonia (175–247)
• Johanan bar Nappaha, primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud (180–279)
• Bar Kappara
• Shimon ben Lakish, Amora in Judea (c.200–c.275)
• Joshua ben Levi (early 3rd century), headed the school of Lod.
• Samuel ben Nahman
• Shila of Kefar Tamarta
• Judah II, sage, also called Judah Nesi'ah, in Judea, Nasi (230–270)
• Rabbah bar Nahmani, Talmudist in Babylonia (c.270–c.330)
• Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, younger brother of Judah II, in Judea (before 280)
• Rabbi Ammi
• Rabbi Assi
• Hanina ben Pappa
• Rav Nachman, Talmudist in Babylonia (?–320)
• Raba bar Rav Huna
• Rami bar Hama
• Rav Shmuel bar Yehudah
• Abbahu, Talmudist in Palestine (c.279–320)
• Rava, Amora in Babylonia (c.280–352)
• Judah III, scholar, son of Gamaliel IV, Nasi (290–320)
• Abaye, Talmudist in Babylonia (?–337)
• Rabbi Jonah, Amora in Palestine (before 340)
• Hamnuna – Several rabbis in the Talmud had this name (3rd and 4th century)
• Rav Papa
  , Amora in Babylon (c.300–375)
• Hillel II, creator of the Hebrew calendar, son of Judah II, in Judea, Nasi (320–365)
• Isaac Nappaha
• Anani ben Sason
• Ravina I, primary aide to Rav Ashi in Babylonia (?–420)
• Rav Ashi, sage, primary redactor of the Talmud in Babylonia (352–427)
• Ravina II, Amora in Babylonia (?–499)

Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)

• Abba Mari, (Minhat Kenaot), 13th-century French Talmudist
• Abraham ibn Daud, (c. 1110–c.1180), author of Sefer ha-Qabbalah
• Abraham ben David of Posquières
  , (c. 1125–1198) 12th century, France
• Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra), (1089–1164) 12th-century Spanish-North African biblical commentator
• Abdullah ibn Saba', Rabbi convert to Islam, considered central figure in the configuration of Shia Islam
  .
• Abdullah ibn Salam, (550–630) rabbi, converted to Islam and was a companion of Islam's founder, Muhammad
• Sefardi
  liturgy and customs. Completed c. 1339
• Amram Gaon
  , (?–875) 9th-century organizer of the siddur (prayer book)
• Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh), (c. 1259–1327) 13th-century German-Spanish Talmudist
• Simeon bar Isaac, 11th century French rabbi
• Yom Tov of Falaise 11th-century French rabbi, grandson of Rashi
• Samson ben Joseph of Falaise, 11th century French rabbi
• Judah ben Yom Tov 11th century French rabbi
• Moses ben Kalonymus, 11th century Italian liturgical poet who moved to Mainz
• Bahya ibn Paquda, (Hovot ha-Levavot), 11th-century Spanish philosopher and moralist
• Chananel Ben Chushiel
  (Rabbeinu Chananel), (990–1053) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
• Meshullam ben Kalonymus (~950 – ~1010), Rabbi, posek, commentator on the Mishnah, and Paytan
• David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, (1479–1573) also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva and chief rabbi
• David Kimhi, (Radak), (1160–1235), born in Narbonne, was a biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian
• Dunash ben Labrat, (920–990) 10th-century grammarian and poet
• Eleazar Kalir
  , (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet
• Rabbi Abin ha-Gadol, 10th century French rabbi
• Eleazar of Worms, (Sefer HaRokeach), (1176–1238) 12th-century German rabbinic scholar
• Solomon ben Meir, 12th century French rabbi
• Elijah of Paris, 12th-century French rabbi
• Judah ben Nathan, 12th century bible commentator, son-in-law of Rashi, also known as Rivan
• Eliezer ben Nathan, (1090–1170) 12th-century poet and pietist
• Haim ben Hananel HaCohen (Tosafist)
• Rabbenu Gershom
  , (c.960–c.1040) 11th-century German Talmudist and legalist
• Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag), (1288–1344) 14th-century French Talmudist and philosopher
• Hasdai Crescas, (Or Hashem), (c. 1370–c.1411) 14th-century Talmudist and philosopher
• Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel), 12th-century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi
• Ibn Tibbon, a family of 12th and 13th-century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders
• Don Isaac Abravanel
  , (Abarbanel), (1437–1508) 15th-century philosopher, Talmudist and Torah commentator. Also a court advisor and in charge of Finance to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain.
• Isaac Alfasi, (the Rif), (1013–1103) 12th-century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot"
• Israel Isserlein (Terumat Hadeshen), (1390–1460) 15th-century, the most influential rabbi of the Empire in the second third of the 15th century and the last great rabbi of medieval Austria
• Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim; Arbaah Turim), (c. 1269–c.1343) 14th-century German-Spanish Halakhist
• Semichah
  (Ordination)
• Joseph Albo, (Sefer Ikkarim), (c. 1380–1444) 15th-century Spain
• Joseph ibn Migash (1077–1141) 12th-century Spanish Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides
• Judah ben Joseph ibn Bulat (c. 1500–1550), Spanish Talmudist and rabbi
• Ka'ab al-Ahbar
  , Iṣḥaq Ka‘b ben Mati, (?–652/653) was a prominent rabbi from Yemen who was one of the earliest important Jewish converts to Islam.

• Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam), (1138–1204) 12th-century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
• Meir ben Samuel (c. 1060–1135) known by the Hebrew acronym (RaM) was a French rabbi and tosafist
• Talmudist and Maimonidean
  , author of the Beit HaBechirah
• Mordecai ben Hillel
  , (The Mordechai), (c. 1250–1298) 13th-century German Halakhist

• Moses de Leon
  , Moshe ben Shem-tov, (1240–1305) 13th-century Spanish Kabbalist and the actual author of The Zohar
• Nachmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban), (1194–1270) 13th-century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
• Nissim Ben Jacob
  (Rav Nissim Gaon), (990–1062) 10th-century Tunisian Talmudist
• Nissim of Gerona, (RaN), (1320–1376) 14th-century Halakhist, Talmudist and physician
• Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, (Bartenura), (c. 1445–c.1515) 15th-century commentator on the Mishnah
• Rashba
• Rashbam, (Samuel ben Meir), (1085–1158) French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi"
• Rashi, (Solomon ben Yitzchak), (1040–1105) 11th-century Talmudist, primary commentator of the Talmud
• Saadia Gaon, (Emunoth ve-Deoth; Siddur), (c.882–942) 10th-century exilarch and leader of Babylonian Jewry
• Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon
  , (c. 1150–c.1230) 12th–13th-century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator
• medieval rabbi, halakhist, and Talmudist, known as the Rashba, student of the Ramban and Rabbeinu Yonah
• Talmudist of the first half of the 13th century, rabbi at Montpellier, leader of the movement against Maimonides, teacher of Yonah Gerondi
• Tosafists
  , (Tosfot) 11th, 12th and 13th-century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany
• Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari), (c. 1175–1241) 12th-century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to Zion
• Ra'ah
• Nahmanides
  , author of the ethical work, The Gates of Repentance (שערי תשובה‎)

• Isaac Abendana (c. 1640–1699), 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England
• Jacob Abendana (c. 1630–1685), 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England
• Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605–1693), 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first rabbi in the Americas
• Abraham Amigo (c. 1610–c. 1683), Judean rabbi
• Bezalel Ashkenazi (c. 1520–c.1592), (Shittah Mekubetzet), 16th-century Talmudist
• Tzvi Ashkenazi (1656–1718), author of Chacham Tzvi
• Yair Bacharach (Havvot Yair 1639–1702), 17th-century German Talmudist
• Menahem ben Moshe Bavli (Ta'amei Ha-Misvot, 1571), 16th-century rabbi
• Abraham ben Saul Broda (c. 1640–1717), Bohemian Talmudist
• Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), Russo-German rabbi and Kabbalist
• Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (RaMaK, 1522–1570), 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar
• Samuel Edels
  (Mahrsha, 1555–1631), 16th-century Talmudist
• Kalonymus Haberkasten, 16th-century Polish rabbi
• David HaLevi Segal, (Taz, 1586–1667, 16th-century Halakhist, major commentary on the Shulchan Aruch
• Aaron Ezekiel Harif, 17th-century Hungarian rabbi
• Abraham Cohen de Herrera (RabACH, c.1570–c.1635), 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (Bet Hillel, (1615–1690), 17th-century Lithuanian scholar
• Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah, c.1565–1632) 16th-century Kabbalist and Author, Eastern Europe and Israel
• Moshe Isserles (Rema, 1520–1572), 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of Ha-mappah (component of the Shulchan Aruch
  )
• Yosef Karo (Mechaber, 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch
• Meir ben Isaac (1482–1565) and his son Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen (1521–1597) of Padua
• Elijah Loans (1555–1636), 16th–17th-century German rabbi and Kabbalist
• Judah Low ben Bezalel
  (Maharal, 1512–1609), 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist
• Meir of Lublin (Maharam, 1558–1616), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
• Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550–1619), 16th–17th-century Torah commentator
• Isaac Luria (1534–1572) (Ari, 1534–1572), 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
• Solomon Luria (Maharshal, 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
• Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England
• David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica)
  (1591–1657), Dutch rabbi, born in Salonica
• David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam), translator of Joseph Pardo's (his father) Shulchan Tahor into Spanish
• Joseph Pardo (rabbi) (c. 1561–1619), Italian rabbi and merchant
• Michael ben Moses Kohen, 16th-century Palestinian rabbi and liturgist
• Moses ha-Levi ha-Nazir, 16th-century rabbi
• Samuel Schotten (1644–1719), 17th-century rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Shalom Shachna (1495–1558), 16th-century Polish Talmudist, Rosh Yeshiva of several great Acharonim
• Sforno
  , 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
• Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno, 1475–1550), 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist
• Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), 16th-century Kabbalist
• Mordecai Yoffe ("Levush", c.1530–1612), 16th–17th-century Polish rabbi, codifier of halakha
• Hayyim Abraham Israel ben Benjamin Ze’evi (c.1650–1731) Palestinian rabbi
• Ephraim Zalman Shor, (c.1550–1633) Czech rabbi
• Simcha Rappaport (1650–1718), Ukrainian rabbi
• Daniel Da Pisa, 16th century head of Rome's Jewish community

18th century

• David Nieto (1654–1728), English rabbi
• Aaron Hart (1670–1756), Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
• Jacob Emden (1697–1776), German Talmudist and mystic
• Nachman of Horodenka (?–1765), Hasidic leader
• Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov, 1700–1760), mystic, founder of Hasidic Judaism
• Isaac Nieto (1702–1774), English rabbi
• Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal, 1707–1746), Italian ethicist, philosopher, and mystic
• alchemist
• Dovber of Mezritch
  (1710–1772), (Maggid), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov
• Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah, 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist
• Elimelech of Lizhensk, (Noam Elimelech, 1717–1787), Polish mystic and Hasid
• Hasidism
• Shalom Sharabi (1720–1777), Yemenite rabbi and Kabbalist
• Hart Lyon (1721–1800), Chief Rabbi
  of Great Britain
• Chaim Joseph David Azulai
  (Hida, 1724–1806), Sephardi rabbi and bibliographer
• David Hassine
  (1727–1792), Moroccan Jewish poet
• Haim Isaac Carigal (1733–1777), rabbi in Newport, Rhode Island in 1773 who became great influence on Reverend Ezra Stiles, and therefore on Yale University
• Aharon of Karlin (I) (1736–1772), Hassidic leader
• Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushas Leivi, 1740–1809) Polish Hassidic Leader
• Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), (Alter Rebbe of Chabad), mystic and Talmudist, founder of Chabad Hasidism and first Chabad Rebbe
• Galicia
  , author of the Ketzos Hachoshen and the Avnei Miluim
• Raphael Berdugo (1747–1821), rabbi in Meknes
• Chaim Ickovits (1749–1821), founder of the Volozhin Yeshiva, author of the Nefesh Ha-Chaim
• Jacob Pardo, rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato
• Joseph Ergas (c1685–1730), Italian kabbalist
• Chaim Ben Attar (the elder) d. 1720
• Chaim ibn Attar (1696-1743), author of Or ha-Ḥayyim commentary on the Torah

Orthodox rabbis

19th century

• Liebman Adler (1812-1892), noted abolitionist and rabbi at Temple Beth El (Detroit), the oldest Jewish congregation in Michigan, and KAM Isaiah Israel in Chicago, the oldest Jewish congregation in Illinois
• Aaron of Pinsk (?–1841), author of Tosafot Aharon
• Jews' College
  , London
• Yaakov Koppel Altenkunshtadt (1765–1837), German and Hungarian rabbi
• Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin (1764-1820), Rabbi of Breslau
• Shimon Agassi (1852–1914), Iraqi Hakham and Kabbalist
• Nathan Marcus Adler (1803–1890), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Aharon of Karlin (II) (1802–1872), Hassidic leader
• Sephardic rabbi, one of the influential precursors of modern Zionism
• Agudath Harabbonim
• Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), (Sfas Emes) Gerrer Rebbe
• Haham
  of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Salomon Berdugo (1854–1906), rabbi in Meknes
• Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816–1893), (Netziv; Ha'emek Davar) rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva, son-in-law of Yitzhak of Volozhin
• Sephardic rabbi, rabbi of Corfu, the first of the precursors of modern Zionism
• Avrohom Bornsztain (1838–1910), (Avnei Nezer), founder and first rebbe of the Sochatchover Hasidic dynasty
• Lelio Cantoni (1802–1857), Italian writer
• Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), (Maharatz Chayes), Galician Talmudic scholar
• Yosef Chayim (1835–1909), the Ben Ish Hai, Iraqi halakhist and preacher
• Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), rabbi in Shklov, Brisk and Jerusalem
• Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Talmudist and communal leader
• Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), (Aruch ha-Shulchan) 19th–20th-century halakhist and posek (decisor)
• Jacob Ettlinger (1798–1871), German scholar, author of the Aruch La-Ner, fierce opponent of Reform Judaism
• Yitzchok Friedman (1850–1917), first rebbe of Boyan
• Shlomo Ganzfried (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, 1804–1886), posek
• Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (1794–1867) also known as Stropkover Rov – Chief Rabbi and head of the bet din of Stropkov, Galicia
• Puppa
  Hasidic dynasty
• Zionist Congress
• Vilna, editor of the Vilna Edition Shas, supporter of the Mizrachi Religious Zionism
  movement
• Solomon Herschell
  (1762–1842), British Chief Rabbi
• philosopher, a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism
• Abraham Hillel (1820–1920), Chief Rabbi of Baghdad
• Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), German founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement
• Torah Scholar who headed the Yeshiva in Berlin, published research on the Chumash and Mishnah, expert in Midrash halakha and a halakhic authority
• Márkus Horovitz (1844–1910), Hungarian historian and writer, rabbi of Lauenburg, Gnesen and Frankfurt am Main
• Yitzchak Ickovits (1780–1849), rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva, son of Chaim of Volozhin
• Lower East Side
• Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874), German author who expressed views, from a religious perspective, in favor of the Jewish re-settlement of the Land of Israel, which predate Theodor Herzl and the Zionist movement
• Talmid Chacham
• Abraham Lichtstein, Av Beit Din of Przasnysz, Poland
• Jewish Community of Danzig, author of the commentary "Tiferes Yisrael" on the Mishnah
• Jacob of Lissa
  (1760–1832), Galician Halakhist
• Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), (also known as Shadal) Italian scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement
• Piyutim
• Raphael Meldola
  (1754–1828), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London
• Frederick de Sola Mendes (1850–1927), Sephardic rabbi in London and America
• Tanach
• Hovevei Zion
  movement
• Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), (Rebbe Nachman), Ukrainian Hasidic and mystic
• Nathan of Breslov (1780–1844), known as Reb Noson, was the chief disciple and scribe of Nachman of Breslov
• Avrohom Chaim Oppenheim (1796?–1824), rabbi at Pécs, Hungary.
• Selestria, Bulgaria
• Moses Pardo (?–1888), Jerusalem-born rabbi of Alexandria
• Yechiel Michel Pines (1824–1913), Russian-born religious Zionist writer, and community leader in the Old Yishuv
• Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz (1847–1914), Jewish historian, and founder of the Agudath Israel organization
• Aryeh Leib Heller
• Religious Zionist Movement, a correspondent of Theodor Herzl
• Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick (1841–1912), educator, rosh yeshiva of Ohel Yitzhak in Suwałki, Poland
• Yosef Altschul(1839–1908), haazan, improviser of jewish songs
• Shmuel Salant (1816–1909), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for almost 70 years, Talmudist and Torah scholar
• Yisrael Lipkin Salanter (1810–1883), father of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism
  , rosh yeshiva and Talmudist
• Yisrael Salanter
• Dovber Schneuri (1773–1827), second Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Lubavitch
• Shmuel Schneersohn (1834–1882), fourth rebbe of Lubavitch
• Moshe Schick (1807–1879), Hungarian posek known as Maharam Schick, author of Halachic responsa
• Chaim Soloveichik
• Moses Sofer (1762–1839), (Chasam Sofer), Hungarian rabbi
• Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870–1939), Baghdadi author of Kaf ha-Chaim
• Chaim Soloveitchik (1853–1918), founder of the Brisker method, son of Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi), son-in-law of Refael Shapiro
• Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, (1820–1892) author of Beis Halevi (the title by which he is known among Talmudic scholars)
• Novohrodo, Chief Rabbi of Kovno
• Hayyim Tyrer (1740–1817), Hasidic kabbalist
• Simcha Zissel Ziv (1824–1898), the Elder of Kelm, one of the early leaders of the Musar movement, founder and director of the Kelm Talmud Torah
• Aharon Azriel, 19th century kabbalist and head of Bet El Yeshiva

20th century

Religious-Zionist

• Sephardic congregation in Petah Tikva, Israel
  and author of Netivei Am
• Yehuda Amital (1924–2010), founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, founder of the Meimad party, former member of the Israeli cabinet, creator of the Hesder Yeshiva concept
• Bikur Holim Hospital, mashgiach ruchani of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva
• French Jewry
• Meir Bar-Ilan (1880–1949), Religious Zionist activist, author, leader of the Mizrachi movement in the United States and Mandatory Palestine
• Jersey City, where he was also Av Beit Din
• Mordechai Breuer (1921–2007), Israeli expert on Tanach, descendant of Samson Raphael Hirsch
• Henrik Bródy (1868–1942), rabbi of the congregation of Náchod, Bohemia and Chief Rabbi of Prague, leader of the Mizrachi movement in Czechoslovakia, author and editor
• Shlomo Yosef Burg (1909–1999), German-born Israeli politician, one of the founders of the National Religious Party
• Yaakov Moshe Charlap (1882–1951), talmudist, kabbalist, rosh yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav, rabbi of the Sha'arei Hesed neighborhood, author of the Mei Marom series of books on Jewish thought
• biblical scholar, rabbi of Florence, Trieste and Vienna, Chairman of the Zionist General Council
• David Cohen (1887–1972), rabbi, talmudist, philosopher and kabbalist, Jewish ascetic who accepted a Nazirite vow at the outbreak of WWI
• Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Menachem Froman (1945–2013), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious leaders
• Aryeh Leib Frumkin (1845–1916), a founder and pioneer of Petah Tikva, the first moshava created in by the Jewish community, author of halachic texts, teacher, operator of a wine shop, great-grandfather of Jonathan Sacks
• Klausenburg, a founder of Mizrachi, great-grandson of the Chassam Sofer
• Shlomo Goren (1917–1994), Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces
• Ovadia Hedaya (1889–1969), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaMekubalim/Beit El Synagogue, recipient of the Israel Prize in rabbinical literature
• Chaim Hirschensohn (1857–1935), prolific author, rabbi, thinker and early proponent of Religious Zionism, Chief rabbi of Hoboken, New Jersey
• Kahane Chai party and son of rabbi Meir Kahane
• Kach
  party, rosh yeshiva of Haraayon Hayehudi yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Israel Isaac Kahanovitch (1872–1945), Polish Canadian Orthodox Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg and Western Canada for nearly 40 years, Talmudist and Zionist activist, founding member of the Canadian Jewish Congress
• Reuvein Margolies (1889–1971), Israeli author, Talmudic scholar, head of the Rambam library, recipient of the Israel Prize for his work on rabbinic literature
• Menachem Mendel Kasher (1895–1983), Polish-born Israeli, author of the Torah Sheleimah, founder and rosh yeshiva of the Sfas Emes Yeshiva, recipient of the Israel Prize in rabbinic literature
• Pinchas Kehati (1910–1976), Polish Israeli teacher and author, author of Mishnayot Mevoarot, ("Explained Mishnayot")
• Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935), first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine, philosopher and Kabbalist, founding rosh yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva
• Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), rosh yeshiva of Mercaz Harav, son of Abraham Isaac Kook
• Aryeh Levin (1885–1969), Mashgiach of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, activist known as the "Father of Prisoners" and the "Tzadik of Jerusalem"
• Moshe Levinger (1935–2015), one of the principals of Gush Emunim, led Jewish settlement in Hebron, helped establish Kiryat Arba
• Lithuanian rabbi, teacher, Kabbalist, spiritual leader of the Hasidic community of Biržai
• Yehuda Leib Maimon (1875–1962), Israeli politician, Israel's first Minister of Religions, leader of Mizrachi in Israel, founder of Mossad HaRav Kook
• Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856–1943), lecturer, writer and Zionist, charter member of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
• Moshe Tzvi Neria (1913–1995), head of the Bnei Akiva Yeshivot
• Menachem Porush (1916–2010), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael
• dayan of the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Israel
• Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz haRav yeshiva
• Ohev Sholom Congregation in Washington, D.C. and Kesher Israel Congregation in Georgetown, vice president of the Agudath Harabbonim
• Isser Yehuda Unterman (1886–1976), Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, third Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, leader of the Mizrachi Movement
• Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Mizrachi Movement
• Judaic Studies

Haredi

• Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976), author of Chazon Yehezkel
• Yisrael Abuhatzeira (1889–1984), Kabbalist
• Nisson Alpert (1927–1986), rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and the first Rosh Kollel of its Kollel L’Horaah — Yadin-Yadin
• Baruch Ashlag (1907–1991), Hasidic rebbe, Kabbalist, author, firstborn and successor of Yehuda Ashlag
• Yehuda Ashlag (1885–1954), Hasidic rebbe, kabbalist, author of the Baal Ha-Sulam on the Zohar and of Talmud Eser Sefirot
• Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910–1995), Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem
• Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864–1953), Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis, author of Leflagos Reuven
• Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn
  , New York
• Abba Berman (1919–2005), Talmudist and rosh yeshiva, one of the founding members of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn
• Amram Blau (1894–1974), Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem and one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Zionist Neturei Karta
• Shmuel Bornsztain (1855–1926), Shem Mishmuel
  , Second Sochatchover Rebbe
• Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), (Michtav Me'Eliyahu) religious philosopher and ethicist
• Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948), also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky
• Baruch Epstein (1860–1941), (Torah Temimah), Lithuanian Torah commentator
• Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866–1933), (Levush Mordechai), Talmudist and co-head of Slabodka yeshiva
• Moshe Feinstein (1895–1986), (Igrot Moshe), Russian-American legal scholar and Talmudist
• Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879–1966), (Kerem HaTzvi), author, leader and scholar
• Nosson Tzvi Finkel (1849–1927), (Alter / Sabba), early 20th-century founder of Slabodka yeshiva, Lithuania
• Mir Yeshiva in Poland, son of Nosson Tzvi Finkel
• Mordechai Shlomo Friedman (1891–1971), Boyaner Rebbe of New York
• Rogatchover Gaon
  (1858–1936), (Rav Yosef Rosen), Talmudist and Hasidic leader
• Chaim Yaakov Goldvicht (1924–1994), founding rosh yeshiva of the first Hesder yeshiva, Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh
• Boruch Greenfeld (1872–1956), (Reb Boruch Hermenshtater), Hasidic mystic and scholar, author of Ohel Boruch
• Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald (1882–1941), rabbi in Pápa
  , Hungary, author of Vayageid Yaakov
• Pupa Rav
  ) author of Vaychi Yosef
• Yerucham Gorelick (19911–1983), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for forty years (1943–1983)
• Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863–1940), pre-eminent Av beis din (rabbinical chief justice), posek (halakhic authority) and Talmudic scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, killed by the Nazis in 1941
• Shalom Hedaya (1864–1944), head of the Beit Din for Sephardic Jews in Jerusalem, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat HaMekubalim/Beit El Synagogue and was given the title Harav Hachasid
• Yitzchok Hutner
  (1906–1980), (Pachad Yitzchok), European-born, American and Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Yisrael Meir Kagan (1839–1933), (Chofetz Chaim), posek, and ethicist, compiler of classic works. Born and lived in Poland. Wrote the Mishnah Berurah
  , a work on Jewish Law.
• Chofetz Chaim
  (1863 – 1936)
• Yaakov Kamenetsky (1891–1986), rabbinical leader and educationalist
• Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985), ("Steipler Gaon"), Ukrainian-born scholar
• Aryeh Kaplan (1934–1983), (Living Torah) writer and mystic
• Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
  (1878–1953), (Chazon Ish) Haredi leader in Israel
• Chaim Mordechai Katz (1894–1964), rosh yeshiva of the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland
• Pinchas Kohn (1867–1941), last rabbi of Ansbach, a founder and executive director of World Agudath Israel
• Aharon Kotler (1891–1962), Lithuanian scholar, founder of Lakewood Yeshiva in the United States
• Chaim Kreiswirth (1918–2001), long-time Chief Rabbi of Antwerp (Belgium)
• Mir Yeshiva
  in Poland
• Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak
• Gershon Liebman (1905–1997), leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement in France
• Dovid Lifshitz (1906–1993), rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for almost fifty years, President of the Ezras Torah Fund
• Elyah Lopian (1876–1970), known as Reb Elyah, prominent in the Mussar Movement
• Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870–1953), renowned Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva
• Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), European-born head of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, one of the founders of Torah U'Mesorah
• Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926), (Ohr Somayach; Meshech Chochmah) Lithuanian-Latvian Talmudist and communal leader
• Shulem Moshkovitz
  (1877–1958), Hasidic rebbe in London
• Yisroel Ber Odesser (1888–1994), Breslover Hasid and rabbi
• UOHC
  , London
• Yeshivas Mir, grandson of Shlomo HaKohen
• Shlomo Polachek (1877–1928), Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and its Yeshiva College, one of the earliest rosh yeshiva in America
• Eliezer Poupko (1886–1961), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Velizh, Russia, honorary president and a member of the executive board of the Agudath Harabonim, father of Baruch Poupko
• Chaim Dov Rabinowitz (1909–2001), author of Da'as Sofrim on Tanach and other commentaries
• Solomon "Shlomo" Nidam Moroccan rabbi from Meknes, Morocco
• Yaacov Choukroun Moroccan rabbi from Meknes, Morocco
• Baranovich Yeshiva
• Mnachem Risikoff (1866–1960), rabbi of Kazan, Kabbalist, rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Congregations of Brooklyn, author of numerous works on Halakha, Aggadah, Biblical commentaries, Divrei Torah and responsa
• Eliyahu Chaim Rosen (1899–1984), rabbi and leader of the Breslov Hasidim in Uman, Ukraine before World War II
• Moshe Rosenstain (1881–1940), mashgiach ruchani of the Lomza Yeshiva in Poland
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), Hasidic mystic and scholar, seventh Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860–1920), fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn
  (1880–1950), sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch
• Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick
  (1882–1937), British rabbi
• Moshe Shatzkes (1881–1958), Av Beth Din of Łomża, rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in America
• Torah Vodaath
• Shimon Shkop (1860–1939), Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and Grodno in Europe and in Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York
• Mirrer Yeshiva
• Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem, son of Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
• Moshe Soloveichik (1879–1941), rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, eldest son of Chaim Soloveitchik, father of Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Ahron Soloveichik
• Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik (1886–1959), the “Brisker Rov,” rosh yeshiva of the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem
• Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848–1932), rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem during the British Mandate of Palestine
• Elya Svei (1924–2009), rosh yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
• Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979), (Satmar Rebbe), Hasidic Hungarian-American rebbe known for strong anti-Zionist positions
• Pinchas Mordechai Teitz (1908–1995), prominent Orthodox rabbi, educator and radio broadcaster in Elizabeth, New Jersey
• Eliezer Waldenberg (1915–2006), Posek and Dayan in Jerusalem, a leading authority on medicine and Jewish law, author of the Tzitz Eliezer, recipient of the Israel Prize for Rabbinical studies
• Elchonon Wasserman (1874–1941) Prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Europe. One of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a Torah scholar.
• Holocaust
• Gershon Yankelewitz (1909–2014), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for over 50 years, one of the last remaining original Mirrer students, "Alter Mirrers"

Modern Orthodox

• Hermann Adler (1839–1911), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• First World War
• President of Yeshiva University, distinguished Torah
  scholar and author
• Zionist
  leader
• Eliezer Berkovits (1908–1992) Talmudic scholar and philosopher
• Herbert Bomzer (1927–2013), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University and community leader
• Israel Brodie (1895–1979), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
• Jews' College
  and a prominent writer
• Jewish Lads' Brigade, the first Jewish chaplain in the British Army, Chief Minister of the Great Synagogue in Sydney
  , Australia
• Isaac Cohen (1914–2007), Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years
• Joseph Ehrenkranz (1926–2014), North American Orthodox rabbi involved in interfaith dialogue, community leader
• Ephraim Epstein (1876–1960), congregational Orthodox rabbi and prominent member of the Jewish community in Chicago, Talmud scholar
• Jews' College in London
• Yaakov Fishman (1913–1983), Chief Rabbi of Moscow and the Moscow Choral Synagogue
• Mavro Frankfurter (1875–1942), Croatian rabbi of the Vinkovci Synagogue who was murdered during the Holocaust by the Ustashas at the Jasenovac concentration camp
• Harry Freedman (1901–1982), author, translator and teacher at Yeshiva University
• Miroslav Šalom Freiberger (1903–1943), Chief Rabbi of Zagreb, Croatia, rabbi of the Zagreb Synagogue, Zionist, translator, writer, spiritual leader, educated as a lawyer and Doctor of Theology, rescued many Jews out of Croatia during the Holocaust, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Israel Friedlander (1876–1920), educator, translator, biblical scholar, a founding adviser to a lecture series that became the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism
• Royal Asiatic Society, and pioneering activist for Zionism^[2]
• Hermann Gollancz (1852–1930), British rabbi and professor
• David Hartman (1931–2013), philosopher, author, and founder of Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
• Joseph H. Hertz
  (1872–1946), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
• Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (1868–1953), British rabbi and dayan
• Jacob Hoffman (1881–1956), Chief Rabbi of Radauti, rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, helped found the Manhattan Day School, Zionist activist involved in the Mizrachi movement
• Dayan of the London Beth Din, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
  , Hebrew scholar, author, translator, leader and erudite speaker
• Hosea Jacobi (1841–1925), Chief Rabbi of Zagreb, Croatia and rabbi of the Zagreb Synagogue for 58 years, founded and headed a Jewish Elementary School, taught Hebrew and Jewish studies in high-schools, established Jewish-Women organizations, active in social welfare projects, wrote the first ever Jewish studies text-books in Croatian
• Immanuel Jakobovits
  (1921–1999), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, medical ethicist
• Leo Jung (1892–1987), one of the major architects of American Orthodox Judaism, "Grandfather of Modern Orthodoxy," teacher of ethics and homiletics at Yeshiva University
• Joseph Kaminetsky (1911–1999), American Modern Orthodox/Yeshivish rabbi, pioneering first director of Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools of North America, directly responsible for the establishment of hundreds of yeshiva day schools across the United States
• Norman Lamm (1927–2020), scholar, academic administrator, author and Jewish community leader; President, Rosh Yeshiva and Chancellor of Yeshiva University
• Aharon Lichtenstein (1933–2015), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, and Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel, son-in-law of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, father of Mosheh Lichtenstein
• Zvulun Lieberman (1930–2012), Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, communal spiritual leader, head of the Syrian Community Bet Din and the Vaad Harabonim of Flatbush
• Joseph Lookstein (1902–1979), rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, President of the Rabbinical Council of America, of the Synagogue Council of America, of the New York Board of Rabbis of Bar-Ilan University and founder of the Ramaz School
• Mojsije Margel (1875–1939), rabbi of Zagreb, lexicographer, teacher and Hebrew scholar
• Moses Mescheloff (1909–2008), Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi, Miami Beach and Chicago
• Chalom Messas (1913–2003), Chief Rabbi of Morocco and Jerusalem
• David Messas (1934–2011), Chief Rabbi of Paris
• Solomon Mestel (1886–1966), British-Australian community rabbi, translator
• Romanian Senate, supporter of Zionism, fighter against antisemitism
  , theologian, philosopher and historian
• Pinchas Hacohen Peli (1930–1989), Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbi, essayist, poet and scholar of Judaism and Jewish philosophy, Professor of Jewish Thought and Literature at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, a visiting professor at Yeshiva University, Cornell University, University of Notre Dame, the Seminario Rabbinico in Argentina and the Makuya Bible Seminary in Japan
• Baruch Poupko (1917–2010), American multi-lingual scholar, author and lecturer, National Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America, National President of the Religious Zionists of America, son of Eliezer Poupko
• Emanuel Rackman (1910–2008), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, held pulpits in major congregations, helped draw attention to the plight of Refuseniks in the then-Soviet Union, attempted to resolve the dilemma of the Agunah, President of Bar-Ilan University
• Max D. Raiskin (1919–1978), rabbi, Professor of Hebrew Literature at Brooklyn College and Hunter College, licensed Certified Public Accountant, educator, author of educational textbooks, principal and executive director of the East Side Hebrew Institute
• President and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva College and RIETS
• Anglo-Jewish rabbi and educationalist, rabbi of Glasgow, Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues
  in London
• Michael Rosen (1945–2008), British-born Israeli rabbi and founder of Yakar, a Jewish learning community and synagogue, son of Kopul Rosen
• Jewish Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv
• Holocaust
• Bronx
• Melech Schachter (1913–2007), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University for over 50 years, father of Hershel Schachter
• Shlomo Shleifer (1889–1957), a government appointee, sustained the Choral Synagogue in Moscow during the worst years of Stalinist repression against Jews
• Simeon Singer (1846–1906), editor of the United Synagogue prayer book
• Ahron Soloveichik (1917–2001), Talmudist and rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
• Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903–1993), distinguished Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Maimonides School, author, posek, modern Jewish philosopher, a seminal figure in Modern Orthodox Judaism
• Isadore Twersky (1930–1997), Orthodox rabbi, Hasidic Rebbe, university professor at Harvard University, internationally recognized authority on rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy
• Jewish Community in Croatia who was murdered in the Holocaust
• Hinko Urbach (1872–1960), Chief Rabbi of Zagreb, Croatia, World War I veteran and Holocaust survivor
• Stanley M. Wagner (1932–2013), American rabbi, academic and community leader, Vice President of the Religious Zionists of America, led the Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph congregation, the only rabbi chaplain of the Colorado Senate, Professor of Jewish history at the University of Denver
• Orthodox Rabbi killed in action during World War II
• Ephraim Wolf (1921–2004), American Orthodox rabbi and spiritual leader, active in the founding and growth of many Jewish educational and communal institutions including the North Shore Hebrew Academy
• Walter Wurzburger (1920–2002), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, headed both the Rabbinical Council of America and the Synagogue Council of America, author and communal rabbi in Toronto, Canada and Lawrence, New York

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

Religious-Zionist

• Shlomo Amar (1948–), Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Haim Amsalem (1959-), former member of Knesset who focused on making conversion to Judaism easier
• Yaakov Ariel (1937–), Chief Rabbi of Ramat Gan, former rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva in the abandoned Israeli settlement of Yamit, rabbi of Kfar Maimon
• Yisrael Ariel (1939–), founder of the Temple Institute and one of the liberators of the Western Wall in the Six-Day War
• Bet El
• David Bar-Hayim (1960–), Av Beit Din, dayan, posek, founder of the Shilo Institute
• Alon Shevut and Ofra, doctor of Jewish thought and a lecturer on Tanach
• Uri Amos Cherki (1959–), chairman of Brit Olam – Noahide World Center, a senior lecturer at Machon Meir, congregational leader, author and philosopher
• Yuval Cherlow (1957–), Rosh Yeshiva and co-founder of Orot Shaul and one of the founders of Tzohar
• Zephaniah Drori (1937–), Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Shmona, Israel and rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva, helped establish Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh
• Haim Drukman (1932–2022), Israeli politician, rosh yeshiva of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva, head of the Center for Bnei Akiva Yeshivot
• Shmuel Eliyahu (1956–), Chief Rabbi of Safed, member of the Chief Rabbinate Council
• Binyamin Elon (1954–2017), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union
• Mordechai Elon (1959–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaKotel
• Sephardi synagogue in Alon Shvut
• Kibbutz Lavi
• Yitzchak Ginsburgh (1944–), American-born Israeli, currently president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank
• Yehudah Glick (1965–), American-born Israeli activist, politician, leader of HaLiba, a coalition of groups dedicated to reaching complete and comprehensive freedom and civil rights for Jews on the Temple Mount
• Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Orot Shaul
• Re’em HaCohen (1957–), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Otniel and rabbi of the Otniel settlement
• Yeshayahu Hadari (1933–2018), Israeli religious scholar, first rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaKotel
• David Bar Hayim
  (1960–), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach Eretz Yisrael
• Daniel Hershkowitz (1953–), Israeli politician, mathematician, professor, rabbi of the Ahuza neighborhood in Haifa, President of Bar-Ilan University
• Hillel Horowitz (1964–), Israeli politician
• Nachman Kahana (1937–), author and brother of Meir Kahane
• Binyamin Lau (1961–), head of 929: Tanach B'yachad, rabbi of Kehillat Ramban in Jerusalem
• Israel Meir Lau (1937–), former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
• Yitzhak Levy (1947–), Mashgiach at Yeshivat Har Etzion, politician, among the initiators of the establishment of the Jewish quarter in Jerusalem, co-founder of Elon Moreh
• Mosheh Lichtenstein (1961-), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, son of Aharon Lichtenstein and grandson of Joseph B. Soloveitchik
• Dov Lior (1933–), Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hebron
• Yaakov Medan (1950-), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, partner in drafting the Gavison-Medan Covenant
• Zalman Baruch Melamed
• Zalman Baruch Melamed (1937–), rabbi of Beit El, father of Eliezer Melamed
• Michael Melchior (1954–), activist and Israeli politician, community rabbi in Talpiyot, Jerusalem, Chief Rabbi of Norway
• Chaim Navon (1973 - )
• Yakov Nagen (1967–), Israeli author, rabbi at Yeshivat Otniel, leader in interfaith peace initiatives between Judaism and Islam
• Avigdor Nebenzahl (1935–), Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, senior rosh yeshiva at Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh, rabbi of the Ramban Synagogue
• Rafi Peretz (1956–), Israeli politician, former Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces
• Shai Piron (1965–), Israeli educator and politician
• Hanan Porat (1943–2011), Israeli educator, political activist and politician, one of the liberators of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, co-founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Gush Emunim, Kfar Etzion, Alon Shevut, Elon Moreh and Ofra
• Meir Porush (1955-), Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael, son of Menachem Porush
• Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch (1928–2020), Canadian-Israeli posek, rosh yeshiva of the London School of Jewish Studies and the Hesder Yeshiva Birkat Moshe in Ma'ale Adumim
• Yosef Zvi Rimon (1968–) Rabbi of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, Rosh Kollel at Yeshivat Har Etzion
• Haim Sabato (1952–), author, co-founder and rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe (Ma’aleh Adumim)
• David Samson (1956–), Israeli Torah scholar, educational entrepreneur, author, congregational rabbi
• Sharon Shalom (1973–), Ethiopian-Israeli community rabbi, lecturer and writer
• Chief Rabbinate Council
• Yitzchak Sheilat (1946–), Israeli scholar of Jewish thought, co-founder of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe
• David Stav (1960–), educator, Chief Rabbi of the city of Shoham, chairman of the Tzohar organization, co-founder of Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva
• Adin Steinsaltz (1937–2020), Israeli Chabad Chasidic teacher, philosopher, Kabbalist, social critic, translator, author of Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud, recipient of the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies
• Aryeh Stern (1944–), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and student of Zvi Yehuda Kook
• Zvi Thau (1938–), co-founder and president of Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem
• Ron Yosef (1974–), founder of the Israeli organization Hod, which represents Israeli gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews

Haredi

• Elazar Abuhatzeira (1948–2011), Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known to followers as the "Baba Elazar
• Nachum Partzovitz
• Yaakov Aryeh Alter (1939–), eighth and current^[when?] rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger
• Breslov
  rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions
• Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi (1943–2015), Orthodox rabbi and a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement
• Moshe Ber Beck (1934–2021), Orthodox rabbi and a chief rabbi of the Neturei Karta movement in the US.
• Yisroel Belsky (1938–2016), American Dean, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Senior Rabbi of the Orthodox Union
• Eliezer Berland (1937–), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement.
• dayan on the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis
• Avrohom Blumenkrantz (1944–2007), American posek and kashrut authority
• Shmuley Boteach (1966–), American Orthodox rabbi, radio and television host, and author
• Meir Brandsdorfer (1934–2009), member of the Badatz (rabbinical court) of the Edah HaChareidis
• Nachum Dov Brayer (1959–), present Rebbe of the Boyan
• Avraham Bromberg, American Rosh Yeshiva and posek
• Yosef Hamadani Cohen (1916–2014), Chief Rabbi of Iran and spiritual leader for the Jewish community of Iran
• Uriel Davidi (1922–2006), Chief Rabbi of Iran from 1980 to 1994
• Michel Dorfman (1913–2006), de facto head of the Breslover Hasidim living in post-Stalinist Russia
• Alfredo Goldschmidt (rabbi) (1945-) Great rabbi of Colombia and the Colegio Colombo Hebreo
• Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Rebbe of the Dushinsky of Jerusalem
• Yosef Sholom Eliashiv
• haredi
  world
• Aharon Feldman (1932–), American Rosh Yeshiva
• Gerrer Rebbes, Polish Hasidic dynasty now in Israel, followers also in the United States and UK
• Shlomo Goldman (1947–2017), Sanz-Klausenburger Grand Rabbi
• Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park
• Zvi Elimelech Halberstam (1952–), Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Netanya, Israel
• Elchanan Heilprin (1921–2015), known as Av Beit Din of Radomishl
• Moshe Hirsch (1923 or 1924–2010), Leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem
• Chaim Avrohom Horowitz (1933–2016), Grand Rabbi of the Boston Jewish Hasidic dynasty
• Mayer Alter Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Jerusalem
• Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe
• Yitzchak Kadouri
  (1898–2006), leading 20th-century Kabbalist (Mekubal)
• Shmuel Kamenetsky (1924–), co-founder and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
• Chaim Kanievsky (1928–2022), Israeli rabbi and posek, lived in Bnei Brak, Israel
• Nissim Karelitz (1926–2019), Israeli haredi leader
• Meir Kessler (1961–), rabbi of Modi'in Illit
• Yitzhak Aharon Korff, Rebbe of Zvhil – Mezhbizh, Boston and Jerusalem, and Rabbi, Jerusalem Great Synagogue.
• Zundel Kroizer (1924–2014), Israeli author of Ohr Hachamah
• Dov Landau
  , Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Berel Lazar (1964–), Italian Chief Rabbi of Russia
• Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits Rebbe of Nikolsburg
• Yitzchok Lichtenstein (1962–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, son of Aharon Lichtenstein, grandson of Joseph B. Soloveichik
• Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1955–), current leader of the Bobov
• Meshulim Feish Lowy (1921–2015), Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty
• Uri Mayerfeld, rosh yeshiva in Canada
• Moshe Meiselman (1942–), founder of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA), founder and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Moshe, grandson of Moshe Soloveichik
• Yona Metzger (1953–), Israeli former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Avigdor Miller (1908–2001), American author and renowned lecturer
• Shlomo Miller, head of the Toronto Kollel and recognized authority of Jewish law
• Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz, Rebbe of Ropshitz
• Yaakov Perlow, American Hasidic rebbe of Novominsk and rosh yeshiva living in Borough Park, Brooklyn
• Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (1973–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi who leads a global organization called Mosdot Shuva Israel. Based in Ashdod and New York
• Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, Rebbe of Skulen
• Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva
• Moshe Leib Rabinovich (1940–), current rebbe of Munkacs
• Yehoshua Rokeach of Machnovka (1949–), Machnovka Rebbe of Bnei Brak
• Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1948–), Belzer Rebbe
• Queens, NY
• Yechezkel Roth, Karlsburger Rav
• Shmuel Rozovsky (1913–1979), Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva
• Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (1910–2012), dean of Torah Ohr Yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Yitzchok Scheiner (1922–2021), Israeli rosh yeshiva
• Eliezer Shlomo Schick (1940–2015), Hasidic rabbi and prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings
• Elyakim Schlesinger, English rabbi
• Elazar Menachem Shach (1899–2001), Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, founder of Degel HaTorah
• Rosh Yeshiva and important [rabbinic figure in Israel
• Dovid Shmidel (1934–), Chairman of Asra Kadisha
• Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (1912–2017), rabbi and posek (halakhic authority)
• Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik (1946–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Brisk, one of the Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, son of Berel Soloveitchik
• Brisk yeshivas in Jerusalem, son of Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
• Aaron Teitelbaum (1947–), Grand Rebbes of Satmar, and the Ruv of the Satmar community in Kiryas Joel, New York
• Moshe Teitelbaum (1914–2006), Satmar Rebbe
• Zalman Teitelbaum (1951–), Grand Rebbe of Satmar, and the third son of Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum
• David Twersky (1940–), Grand Rabbi and spiritual leader of the village of New Square, New York
• Mordechai Dovid Unger (1954–), currently Bobover Rebbe
• Vizhnitzer Rebbes
  , (Vizhnitzer), Romanian dynasty of Hasidic rebbes in Israel and the United States
• Osher Weiss (1953-), Possek and An Av Beis Din
• Shmuel Wosner (1913–2015), Haredi rabbi and posek
• Dov Yaffe (1928–2017), Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi
• Amnon Yitzhak (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel
• Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry
• Amram Zaks (1926–2012), rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak
• Jonathan Markovitch (1967–), Chief Rabbi of Kyiv

Modern Orthodox

• Marc D. Angel (1945–), Modern Orthodox rabbi and author, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City
• Raymond Apple (1935–), Australian Jewish spokesman, writer and lecturer on Jewish, interfaith and freemasonic issues
• Assaf Bednarsh (1971–), Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Rosh Kollel for the Gruss Kollel in Jerusalem
• Harvey Belovski (1968–), British Orthodox rabbi, educator and organisational advisor, rabbi of Golders Green United Synagogue
• Ari Berman (1970–), Fifth President of Yeshiva University
• Joshua Berman (1964–), Orthodox Rabbi and Professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University
• Saul Berman (1939–), communal rabbi, Chairman of the Department of Judaic Studies of Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, Director of Edah, Professor at Yeshiva University and Columbia University
• Ezra Bick (1946–), author, Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion, scion of the Rapoport-Bick rabbinic dynasty
• David Bigman (1954–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa, helped found the Ein Hanatziv Midrasha for girls, previous Rosh Yeshiva of the Ein Tzurim Yeshiva
• Yosef Blau – Mashgiach ruchani at RIETS for over 40 years, president of the Religious Zionists of America
• Benjamin Blech (1933-), American modern Orthodox thinker, Professor of Talmud and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, author and speaker
• ethicist, including Jewish medical ethics, Rosh yeshiva and professor at RIETS and Yeshiva University
• Rosh Yeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone
  network of institutions
• Reuven Pinchas Bulka (1944–2021), Canadian rabbi, writer, broadcaster and activist, spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, co-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress
• editor
• Sephardi
  community
• Albert Chait, (1986–), Rabbi to the United Hebrew Congregation in Leeds, United Kingdom
• Kotel Dadon (1967–), Israeli Orthodox rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Croatia,
• Frankfurt am Main
• Chuck Davidson (1961-), founder of organizations Giyur Kehalacha and Ahavat Hager which aims to undermine the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and their monopoly with conversions and marriages
• Mark Dratch (1958–), Instructor of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University and founder of JSafe
• Modern Orthodox rabbi, historian, author, and founder and director of the Jewish life advocacy organization, ITIM
• Barry Freundel (1951-), former rabbi of Kesher Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., convicted of voyeurism
• Manis Friedman (1946-), a biblical scholar, author, counselor and speaker
• Aryeh Frimer (1946–), American-Israeli Active Oxygen Chemist, teacher at Bar Ilan University, specialist on Women and Jewish law
• Kosher Division, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, founding chairman of NORPAC
• Meir Goldwicht — Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
• Moshe Gottesman (1932-2018), rabbi, educator and community leader
• Irving Greenberg (1933–), American rabbi and writer on the relationship between Christianity and Judaism
• Steven Greenberg (1956–), first openly homosexual Orthodox rabbi
• David Bar Hayim (1960-), founder of Machon Shilo, proponent of Nusach
  Eretz Yisrael
• Nathaniel Helfgot (1963–), President of the International Rabbinic Fellowship
• modern orthodox posek
• Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., Vice President of the AMCHA Initiative
  , teacher, lecturer, activist, author
• Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
  for over 20 years
• Howard Jachter – American Orthodox rabbi, Dayan, educator, author and communal leader, expert on the laws of Jewish divorce
• Ephraim Kanarfogel (1955–), rabbi and Torah scholar, professor and dean at Yeshiva University, one of the foremost experts in the fields of medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature
• Moshe Kletenik (1954–), congregational rabbi, Av Beit Din and Mesader Gittin, President of the Rabbinical Council of America
• Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Jerusalem, Director of Interfaith Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League
  , writer
• Joel Landau, New York rabbi associated with Yad Ezra V’Shulamit
• Baruch Lanner (1949–), American former Orthodox rabbi who was convicted of child sexual abuse
• Aryeh Lebowitz (1977–), American Modern Orthodox rabbi and posek, Director of Semikhah at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

• Haskel Lookstein (1932–), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, principal of the Ramaz School, son of Joseph Lookstein
• Ephraim Mirvis (1956–), Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth
• Leonard Matanky (1958–), Modern Orthodox rabbi, co-president of the Religious Zionists of America, pulpit rabbi, Dean of Ida Crown Jewish Academy, past president of the Rabbinical Council of America
• Yaakov Neuburger (1955–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
• Second World War
• Young Israel of Holliswood
• Dale Polakoff (1957–), American rabbi, teacher and spiritual leader, Senior rabbi of the Great Neck Synagogue for over 30 years, past President of the Rabbinical Council of America
• Yona Reiss (1966–), American rabbi, noted Torah scholar, attorney, lecturer and jurist, current Av Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council
• Hershel Reichman (1944–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
• Shlomo Riskin (1940-), founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, dean of Manhattan Day School, founder and Chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone Institutions
• David Rosen (1951–), South African-British-Israeli rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Ireland, American Jewish Committee's International Director of Interreligious Affairs, son of Kopul Rosen
• Jeremy Rosen (1942–), Orthodox Rabbi, author and lecturer, son of Kopul Rosen
• Jonathan Rosenblatt (1956–), American Modern Orthodox rabbi, teacher, lecturer, and counselor
• dayan (rabbinic judge) at the Beth Din of America, resident scholar at Congregation Ahavath Torah, son of rabbi Michael Rosensweig
• Rosh Kollel
  of the Beren Kollel Elyon
• Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, philosopher, theologian, author, peer and public figure, great-grandson of Aryeh Leib Frumkin
• Lander College
  for Men, spiritual leader of the Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov
• Yehuda Sarna (1977–), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of the United Arab Emirates
• Hershel Schachter (1941–), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University, posek, son of Melech Schachter
• Jacob J. Schacter (1950–), American Orthodox rabbi, historian, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University, son of Herschel Schacter
• Hanan Schlesinger – American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, co-founder of Roots, a joint Palestinian-Israeli grassroots peacemaking initiative
• Arthur Schneier (1930-), prominent rabbi in the secular world and rabbi at Park East Synagogue, which hosted Pope Benedict
• Mara d'asra of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey
• Gedalia Dov Schwartz (1925–2020), Orthodox rabbi, scholar and posek, the av beis din of both the Beth Din of America and the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc), rosh beth din of the National Beth Din of the Rabbinical Council of America, President of the Mizrachi of Rhode Island and the RCA Philadelphia Region
• Adolf Shayevich (1937–), rabbi of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, Chief Rabbi of Russia
• Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University
  , Rabbi Henry H. Guterman chair in Talmud, author and editor
• Bergenfield, New Jersey
• Haym Soloveitchik (1937–), Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, professor at Hebrew University and Yeshiva University, leading contemporary historian of Jewish law
• Meir Soloveichik (1977–), American Orthodox rabbi and writer, rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City, grandson of Ahron Soloveichik
• Joseph B. Soloveitchik
• Nuclear Engineer
• Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, founding rabbi of Kehillas Beis Sholom in Clifton, New Jersey
• Moshe David Tendler (1926-2021), Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, professor of biology at Yeshiva University, expert in medical ethics, son-in-law of Moshe Feinstein
• Kalman Topp (1972–), American rabbi, educator, author, Senior Rabbi of the Beth Jacob Congregation of Beverly Hills, California
• Mayer Twersky (1960–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, Grand Rabbi of the Talne Chasidim, grandson of rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
• Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland, senior faculty member of Yeshiva Ohr Somayach
• Moshe Weinberger (1957–), founding spiritual leader of Congregation Aish Kodesh, Mashpia/mashgiach ruchani at RIETS, the "senior spokesman" of the Neo-Hasidic movement in Modern Orthodoxy
• Talmud Bavli

• Jeremy Wieder (1971–), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, one of the first Americans to win the International Bible Contest (Chidon Hatanach)
• Mordechai Willig (1947-), Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, prominent posek for the Modern Orthodox community.
• Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation
  (CJCUC)
• Benjamin Yudin (1944-), rabbi of Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Conservative

Open Orthodox

• Dov Linzer (1966–), President and Rosh Yeshiva of the Open-Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in Riverdale, New York

• Avi Weiss (1944–), Founder, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale

19th century

• Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), critical historian, founder of the "Positive Historical" school, progenitor of Conservative Judaism
• Levi Herzfeld (1810–1884), German rabbi, proponent of moderate reform
• Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840), Austrian philosopher and historian
• Yedidyah Raphael Chai Abulafiya (1806–1869), Kabbalist who served as the head of the Beit El Kabbalist yeshiva.

20th century

• Jacob B. Agus
  , rabbi and theologian
• Philip R. Alstat, Conservative rabbi
• Ben-Zion Bokser, Conservative rabbi
• Boaz Cohen, Talmud scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Gerson D. Cohen, historian and Jewish Theological Seminary of America chancellor
• Hebrew University
• Louis Finkelstein, Talmud scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953), American Conservative Talmud scholar
• Robert Gordis, leader in Conservative Judaism
• Sidney Greenberg, rabbi and author
• Simon Greenberg, professor and vice-chancellor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Morris Gutstein, congregational rabbi and historian
• Jules Harlow, liturgist
• Arthur Hertzberg, rabbi, scholar, and activist
• Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972), philosopher, scholar of Hasidism, and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Max Kadushin, philosopher and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• Wolfe Kelman, Rabbinical Assembly leader
• halakhah
• Albert L. Lewis, Conservative rabbi
• Saul Lieberman, rabbi and scholar
• Marshall Meyer, rabbi and human rights activist, founded a rabbinical school and synagogue in Argentina
• Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author
• Samuel Schafler, American rabbi and historian
• Solomon Schechter, scholar and a founder of Conservative Judaism
• Morris Silverman, American rabbi and liturgist
• Chana Timoner, first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U.S. Army

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Leslie Alexander (rabbi), first female rabbi of a major Conservative Jewish synagogue in the United States
• Lia Bass, second Latin American female rabbi in the world.
• Sharon Brous, Founder of Ikar and prominent voice for justice
• Geoffrey Claussen, Conservative rabbi and Elon University professor
• Aryeh Cohen, Conservative rabbi and American Jewish University professor
• Martin Samuel Cohen, Conservative rabbi and author
• Shaye J. D. Cohen, Conservative rabbi and Harvard University professor
• Moshe Cotel, pianist, composer, and rabbi
• Menachem Creditor, Conservative rabbi, activist, and founder of the Shefa Network
• Cynthia Culpeper, first full-time female rabbi in Alabama
• Jerome Cutler, director of the Creative Arts Temple in West Los Angeles, California.
• David G. Dalin, rabbi and historian
• Sinai Temple
  , Los Angeles, California
• Elliot N. Dorff, Conservative rabbi, bioethicist, and professor of Jewish Theology at the American Jewish University
• Amy Eilberg, Conservative rabbi, author and co-founded the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco
• Edward Feld, Conservative rabbi and siddur editor
• Everett Gendler, rabbi and progressive activist
• Neil Gillman, philosopher, theologian, and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor
• David Golinkin, Masorti rabbi and halakhist
• Michael Greenbaum, professor and vice-chancellor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Reuven Hammer, Masorti rabbi, author, and siddur commentator
• Sherre Hirsch, rabbi and author
• feminist Talmudic scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Rachel Isaacs, first openly lesbian rabbi ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
• Louis Jacobs, founder of the Masorti movement in the United Kingdom, theologian
• William E. Kaufman, advocate of process theology
• Daniella Kolodny, first female rabbi enlisted in the United States Naval Academy
• Myer S. Kripke, rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist based in Omaha, Nebraska
• Joshua Kulp, Conservative scholar and rabbi and founder of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem
• Harold Kushner, American Conservative rabbi, theologian, and popular writer
• Aaron Landes (1929–2014), rabbi of Beth Sholom in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
• Amichai Lau-Lavie – Israeli-American Conservative rabbi, social entrepreneur, human rights activist, founder of Storahtelling
• William H. Lebeau, Conservative rabbi and Dean of Rabbinical School at Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Naomi Levy, American rabbi, author and speaker
• Alan Lew, teacher of Jewish meditation
• Aaron L. Mackler, Conservative rabbi and bioethicist
• Jason Miller (rabbi), Conservative rabbi, entrepreneur and technology blogger
• Alan Mittleman, professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Jack Moline, Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance
• Jacob Neusner (1932–2016), Conservative trained scholar and writer
• Daniel Nevins
  , Dean of JTS Rabbinical School and author of inclusive teshuvah on homosexuality in Judaism
• Einat Ramon, first Israeli-born woman rabbi
• Paula Reimers, one of the first women to be ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Arnold Resnicoff, Navy Chaplain, AJC National Director of Interreligious Affairs, Special Assistant (Values and Vision) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• Joel Roth, Conservative scholar and rabbi
• Simchah Roth. Israeli rabbi and Siddur Va'ani Tefillati editor
• Danya Ruttenberg, Award-winning author, editor and social justice activist
• Julie Schonfeld, first female rabbi to serve in the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association
• Ismar Schorsch, Conservative educator and leader
• Harold M. Schulweis, rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California and founder of the Jewish World Watch
• Rona Shapiro, first female rabbi to head a Conservative synagogue in Cleveland
• Alan Silverstein, rabbi of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, and former President of the Rabbinical Assembly
• Mychal Springer, rabbi and Jewish Theological Seminary of America leader
• Valerie Stessin, first woman to be ordained as a Conservative rabbi in Israel
• Ira F. Stone, a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement
• Chattanooga
• Gordon Tucker, Conservative rabbi
• Stuart Weinblatt, Conservative rabbi and founder of Congregation B'nai Tzedek in Potomac, Maryland; President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North America
• Bea Wyler, first female rabbi in Germany to officiate at a congregation

Union for Traditional Judaism

• David Weiss Halivni (1927–2022)

Reform

19th century

• Samuel Adler (1809–1891), German-American rabbi of Temple Emanu-El
• Moses Berlin (1852–1927), British Reform rabbi
• Emil Hirsch
  (1851–1923), American Reform rabbi and scholar
• David Einhorn (1809–1879), American Reform rabbi
• Samuel Hirsch (1815–1889), German-American philosopher of the Reform Movement
• Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), German Reform ideologist
• Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860), German rabbi and founder of classic German Reform Judaism
• Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy (1820–1890), Hungarian-English Reform rabbi in Eperies and Manchester, first Jewish professor in Cambridge
• Leopold Zunz (1794–1886), German scholar, founded Science of Judaism school
• Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), American Reform rabbi

20th century

• Paula Ackerman (1893–1989), first female to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, not ordained
• Joseph Asher (1921–1990), advocate of reconciliation between the Jews and the Germans in the post-Holocaust era
• Leo Baeck (1873–1956), Reform rabbi
• Laszlo Berkowitz
  (1928–2020), Reform rabbi, Temple Rodef Shalom
• Lionel Blue (1930–2016), British rabbi, writer and broadcaster
• Abraham Cronbach (1882–1965), Reform rabbi & educator
• President's Commission on Equal Opportunity
• David Max Eichhorn (1906–1986), Reform Jewish rabbi, author, founder of Merritt Island's Temple Israel,^[3] and Army chaplain among the troops that liberated Dachau
• Regina Jonas (1902–1944), first female rabbi in the world
• Gunther Plaut (1912–2012), Reform rabbi and author, Holy Blossom Temple
• Murray Saltzman (1929–2010), Reform rabbi
• Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), Reform rabbi and Zionist leader
• Stephen S. Wise
  (1874–1949), Reform rabbi and Zionist activist

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Pauline Bebe, first female rabbi in France
• Jackie Tabick, first female rabbi in Britain
• Sally Priesand, Reform rabbi, first female rabbi in the United States
• Julia Neuberger, British Reform rabbi
• Elyse Goldstein, first female Rabbi in Canada, educator and writer
• Hebrew Union College
  professor
• Arik Ascherman, American-born Reform rabbi and human rights activist for both Jews and non-Jews in Israel-best known for advocating for Palestinian human rights.
• Angela Warnick Buchdahl
  , American rabbi
• Rebecca Dubowe, first deaf woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United States
• Denise Eger, former rabbi of Beth Chayim Chadashim (world's first LGBT synagogue) and founder of Temple Kol Ami in West Hollywood, first female and open lesbian to serve as president of Southern California Board of Rabbis, officiated at the first legal same-sex wedding of two women in California
• David Ellenson, former president of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, and chancellor emeritus
• Lisa Goldstein, Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
• Dana Evan Kaplan, rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom in Sun City, Arizona; author of The New Reform Judaism: Challenges and Reflections, the most current modern scholarly analysis of contemporary Reform Judaism
• Alysa Stanton, first ordained Black female rabbi (Reform) in America
• LGBT rights

Reconstructionists

20th century

• Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983), founder of the Reconstructionist movement in America
• Ira Eisenstein (1906–2001), founding president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Contemporary (ca. 21st century)

• Deborah Brin, one of the first openly gay rabbis and one of the first hundred women rabbis
• Susan Schnur, editor of Lilith Magazine
• Rebecca Alpert, rabbi, historian and professor
• Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, children's book author
• Tina Grimberg, leader in the inter-religious dialog
• Carol Harris-Shapiro, modern author
• Sandra Lawson, first openly gay, female, black rabbi
• Joy Levitt, first female president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
• Toba Spitzer, first openly gay head of a rabbinical association

Other rabbis

• Steven Blane, American Jewish Universalist rabbi
• Baal Teshuvah
  movement
• African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis^[4]
• Shlomo Helbrans (1962–2017), rebbe of the Lev Tahor community
• Tamara Kolton (1970–), first rabbi in Humanistic Judaism
• Tikkun magazine
• Jackie Mason (1931–2021), comedian and actor, received smicha from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein^[5]
• Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
• Joseph Telushkin (1948–), American rabbi, screenwriter, lecturer and bestselling author^[6] (non-denominational)
• Arthur Waskow (1933–), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement
• Sherwin Wine (1928–2007), U.S. founder of Society for Humanistic Judaism

See also

• List of Mandaean rabbis
• List of people called Rabbi
• List of rabbis known by acronyms

References